Minnesota Trade Unionists Among Those Targeted in Federal Indictments of ICE Observers
1d 4h ago by lemmy.world/u/rockSlayer in anarchism@lemmy.dbzer0.com from workdaymagazine.org
Minnesota trade unionists active in worker assemblies are among the 15 people indicted by the federal government today, as part of a sweeping crackdown on organizing in opposition to the ICE and Border Patrol since December 2025. Among a slew of other allegations, the indictment cited some of the individuals’ participation in assemblies of trade […]
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
I spoke, because a Blue Nazi is still a Nazi.
Minnesotans don't though.
Teachers unions are legit. Construction unions are just white supremisist gangs like the police and firefighters. I know because I’m blackballed from a construction union for speaking up about this problem
Unions have both been supporters of all workers, and used to exclude anyone not already a worker, depending on the particular union and the time and place.
It's disappointing, since it causes class division. 😞
yeah the labor movement fell into a pattern of black and white thinking that made them easy to shatter after the Harlan Couty War. it all culminated in union workers needing to organize, and ultimately unionize, against their old unions. in large part that movement was why the political establishment reacted with Thatcher and Reagan